Do orders to refrain from, or stay away orders, really make any difference in domestic violence situations? Good question and the answer isn’t that reassuring.<\/p>\n
Orders of protection are usually issued as the result of a family “situation,” most commonly domestic violence. There are two kinds of these orders. The refrain from order doesn’t prohibit any behavior that isn’t already illegal; and the stay away order, the more serious of the two, mandates the defendant stay away from the victim.<\/p>\n
Along with ordering that the defendant stay away from a victim’s work, home, school or any other place in public, they are required to turn in any firearms. While a nice thought, this rarely happens in practice, and as a net result many women have been seriously harmed or killed by abusive men under a stay away order – as one man in jail was heard saying to a cellmate: “It’s just a (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do orders to refrain from, or stay away orders, really make any difference in domestic violence situations? Good question and the answer isn’t that reassuring. Orders of protection are usually issued as the result of a family “situation,” most commonly…<\/span><\/p>\n